5.2 PTR / General Information

[Fat Tire]

http://us.battle.net//wow/en/blog/8226552

Constant changes to 5.2 make it hard to keep up. Blog has all the up to date changes.


5.2 is currently live on all realms -- Locking thread.
-MiRai

[Owltoid]

the purge nerfs are good for multiboxers, as typically we have one round of purges and then move on. That's obviously different than a solo toon spamming it

[Fat Tire]

Gotcha - then I see nothing but good news for ele boxers. All the op classes got nerfed pretty hard.

[Kruschpakx4]

the shaman stuff is actually good, 1 min on elemental mastery is really insane, for both enhance and elemental, since I can then go ascendance+em all the time, and also EM+trinket every minute; but it kinda sucks that 10% extra damage on lava burst have been added on unleash fury and not unleash elements :/

the shockwave "nerf" isnt really a good change for us because it'll still have 20 sec cooldown against boxers (except the warrior is really retarded and misses it)

after all that I'll still go with enhance, gonna be excited about the changes to our tier 45 talents as they have been mentioned before

[MiRai]

Thread has been sticky'd. Please keep all 5.2 PTR discussion in this thread.

[zenga]

the shaman stuff is actually good, 1 min on elemental mastery is really insane, for both enhance and elemental, since I can then go ascendance+em all the time, and also EM+trinket every minute; but it kinda sucks that 10% extra damage on lava burst have been added on unleash fury and not unleash elements :/

I really can't see a 1min CD for 20s giving 30% haste for the best healer in the game going live. Pretty sure they will change that (at the expense of ele of course). Not to mention that they would have to buff echo of elements for pve reasons for ele, because else everyone would grab EM. Now trhe prob in pvp was that it doesn't line up with ascendance, unless you delay it on purpose. I can see them bringing it to a 1.5m cd though.

[Owltoid]

the purge nerfs are good for multiboxers, as typically we have one round of purges and then move on. That's obviously different than a solo toon spamming it

Given that enhancement isn't GCD capped, purge may make its way into the spam button, though that could be bad news against some classes, like resto druids.

[Kruschpakx4]

official patch notes are out, afaik purge wont have a cooldown unless you glyph it, overall things are getting better for us, shaman buffs, the blood fear nerf, feral cyclone nerf and removal of blanket cs from mages/locks, that is really great but yet there is something retarded comming

New Level 60 Talent: Ring of Peace
Ring of Peace forms a 8 yard Sanctuary around the target for 8 seconds, causing all enemies in the area of effect to be silenced and disarmed.

dont want another rof in this game

[Fat Tire]

official patch notes are out, afaik purge wont have a cooldown unless you glyph it, overall things are getting better for us, shaman buffs, the blood fear nerf, feral cyclone nerf and removal of blanket cs from mages/locks, that is really great but yet there is something retarded comming

New Level 60 Talent: Ring of Peace
Ring of Peace forms a 8 yard Sanctuary around the target for 8 seconds, causing all enemies in the area of effect to be silenced and disarmed.

dont want another rof in this game

Another ring....They just removed two blanket silences, it doesn't make sense to add another one... that's aoe... and disarms

Ele, ww monks and rogues got big buffs.

Very excited about all the cc nerfs - just need pom/ring

[Chivalrous]

I'm loving the game more than ever, some pretty good changes. The new armor tiers are kinda meh but no biggie. I love the triceratops mount and hunter pet--I hope it isn't exotic.